Details
MAN RAY (1890–1976)
Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics), c. 1925
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1935
crop marks (recto); stamped photographer's credit [Manford M8], annotated 'H-P. Roché' in red ink with printer's notations in ink and pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 9 x 618 in. (22.9 x 15.6 cm.)
This work is accompanied by a copy of Jacques Brunius's En Marge du Cinema Français and a press photograph of Marcel Duchamp with the Rotary Demishpere.
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 13, 1992, lot 303;
Christie's, New York, April 6, 2017, lot 126;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Jacques Brunius, En Marge du Cinema Français, Arcanes, Paris, 1954, cover (variant).
Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise, Rizzoli, New York, 1989, pp. 114-115.
Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Delano Greenidge Editions, New York, 2000, pl. 146, p. 392 (another view of the Rotary Demisphere).
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